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Underground (1970 Film)
''Underground'' is a 1970 American war drama film directed by Arthur H. Nadel, written by Ron A. Bishop and Andy Lewis, and starring Robert Goulet, Danielle Gaubert, Lawrence Dobkin, Carl Duering, Joachim Hansen and Roger Delgado. It was released on October 7, 1970, by United Artists. Production Many of the scenes set in England were actually filmed in the Republic of Ireland, in the town of Enniscorthy. Buildings seen in the film included St Aidan's Cathedral, Enniscorthy railway station, Lett's Brewery, Abbey Square and the rowing club boathouse. Plot During World War II, an American intelligence agent in England, ashamed for having yielded information to the Germans during a previous capture, attempts to redeem himself by contriving his way into a French resistance group, with his ultimate plan being to kidnap a valuable German general and obtain his secrets. Cast *Robert Goulet as Dawson * Danielle Gaubert as Yvonne *Lawrence Dobkin as Boule * Carl Duering as General Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gardner (producer)
Arthur Gardner (born Arthur Goldberg; June 7, 1910 – December 19, 2014) was an American actor and film producer. He was known for his television western, ''The Rifleman''. He was a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Early life Gardner was born Arthur Goldberg in Marinette, Wisconsin, and raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He started his show business career as an actor when he was 18 years old. In 1929, he arrived in Hollywood, where Carl Laemmle employed him as an extra for the film studio Universal. One of his first roles was as a student in 1930's ''All Quiet on the Western Front''. He was the last surviving member of the cast and crew. Gardner and Luise Rainer were in 1938's '' Dramatic School'', and, up until his death two weeks before Rainer, were the last two surviving members, both at the age of 104. During World War II, Gardner served in the Army Air Forces' First Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California. Like many Jewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enniscorthy Railway Station
Enniscorthy railway station () is a railway station in County Wexford, Ireland. It is in the centre of the town of Enniscorthy. Description It has two platforms, a passing loop and a siding. The station is fully staffed. The far-side platform, accessible only by a footbridge, is used only when two trains pass. History The station opened on 16 November 1863. Originally there was a turntable behind the second platform which was used during the building of the tunnel under Enniscorthy town but was also used afterwards due to heavy traffic on Market Day. There was once an engine shed that was opposite of the present-day goods shed. Two water columns were at each end of the platforms and there was also a very long siding for loading cattle. There were also a number of sidings, including a siding for O'Donahoes behind the station building, a siding for Buttles Bacon Factory (which is now the site of the Enniscorthy Swimming Pool), a siding at the entrance of the tunnel for Roches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of American Films Of 1970
This is a list of American films released in 1970. Box office The highest-grossing American films released in 1970, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows: January–March April–June July–September October–December See also * List of 1970 box office number-one films in the United States * 1970 in the United States References External links 1970 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:American films of 1970 1970 Films A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of Visual arts, visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are gen ... Lists of 1970 films by country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rietty
Robert Rietti, (born Lucio Herbert Rietti; sometimes Rietty, 8 February 1923 – 3 April 2015) was an English actor, translator, playwright, and dubbing director. With over 200 credits to his name, he had a highly prolific career in the British, American, and Italian entertainment industries. He was particularly prominent in post-production dubbing both foreign and domestic, often overseeing the English-language dubbing of foreign actors' dialogue. He is known for his dubbing work in the ''James Bond'' film series, '' Waterloo'', the 1972 adaptation of ''Treasure Island'', and '' Avalanche Express''. Early life Born in 1923, Rietti was the younger of two sons of Italian-Jewish actor Victor Rietti and Rachel Rosenay. In 1932, at the age of nine, he joined his father's company ''Teatro Italiano'', making his stage debut in ''Mysterious Currents''. His father (under whom Ida Lupino and June Duprez had studied acting) developed his son's acting career under the name Bobby Riet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Pilkington
Joe Pilkington (1940 – 7 July 1999) was an Irish actor, best known for his portrayal of Eamon Maher in the long-running TV series ''The Riordans''. Father of actress Rachel Pilkington, Joseph Pilkington made a marked contribution to Irish arts and culture through roles played both on and offscreen. His acting roles in the late 1960s in the Abbey Theatre are listed. Filmography Film *'' Underground'' (1970) as Enlisted Man *''The McKenzie Break'' (1970) as Police Communications Sergeant (uncredited) *'' The Outsider'' (1979) *'' Light Years Away'' (1981) as Thomas *''Traveller'' (1981) as Traveller man *''The Ballroom of Romance'' (1986) as Tim Daly *'' Into The West'' (1992) as Detective *'' A Man of no Importance'' (1994) as Ernie Lally *'' The Butcher Boy'' (1998) as Charlie McGlone Television *''The Riordans ''The Riordans'' is an Irish television Soap opera broadcast on RTÉ from 1965 to 1979 set in the fictional townland of Leestown in County Kilkenny. Its locati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bartley (actor)
Jim Bartley (born 1945) is an Irish actor best known for his part as Bela Doyle in the Irish soap opera ''Fair City'', a part he has had since 1990. His other television credits include ''Fatal Inheritance'', ''The Bill'', ''Joyriders'', ''Taffin'', '' The Fantasist'', ''Inside'', '' The Irish R.M.'', ''Teems of Times'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Underground'', ''Ulysses'', ''Tolka Row'' and ''Z-Cars''. He has also had film roles in '' War of the Buttons'', ''M.A.N.: Matrix Adjusted Normal'', ''Teresa's Wedding'' and ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again''. He married actress Barbara Brennan in 1973. They had two children, Emmet and Eva, but separated in 1984. Emmet died in 1987, aged nine. Eva also became an actress. He lives with his partner Helen Cahill in Tallaght, County Dublin. He has taken regular breaks from acting due to him having strokes. On 24 May 2013, Bartley had a full segment of '' The Late Late Show'' set aside in honour of his 55 years in showbiz. His former ''Fair Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Crosbie
Martin Crosbie (7 April 1911 – 10 February 1982) was an Irish tenor and older brother to Paddy Crosbie of ''The School Around the Corner''. Martin, who was affectionately known as "The Miller's daughter", a song he made his own, started in show business in his early 1930s. Life The eldest in a family of four, he was christened John Martin but was known as Mossy to his family and friends. His mother and father came from Wexford town. His father, Martin, was a foreman-fitter and turner on the Permanent way, that is the tracks section, of the old Dublin United Tramways. Before coming to Dublin, his father had earned quite a reputation in his native town, both as a singer and comedian. He won the Wexford Feis gold medal in 1904 in the tenor competition. Martin's paternal grandmother was reputed to have had a three-octave voice, and sang in Bride Street Church (Church of the Assumption), Wexford. Before his singing career began, he worked as a fitter/mechanic in CIE's Summerhill de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Leland
David Leland (20 April 1941 – 24 December 2023) was a British film director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut ''Wish You Were Here'' in 1987. Life and career Leland initially trained as an actor at Central School of Speech and Drama. In 1963, he was part of the breakaway group of Central staff and students who formed Drama Centre London along with fellow students including actor and later theatre director Jack Shepherd and Jon Lord, later keyboard player and co-founder of rock band Deep Purple and Whitesnake. After several small parts as actor he began his collaboration with British television director Alan Clarke in 1981. Their film '' Made in Britain'' was well received and featured the first screen role of actor Tim Roth. ''Made in Britain'' won the Prix Italia (an international Television award) in 1984. In 1986, Leland and director Neil Jordan co-wrote the screenplay for the thriller-drama ''Mona Lisa'', featuring Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Malandrinos
Andreas Malandrinos (; 14 November 1888, in Greece – 11 July 1970, in Surrey) was a Greek-born actor who started appearing in British films from 1909, until his death 61 years later in Surrey, England. He was fluent in six languages and used this talent to good effect to flourish as a dialect comedian in British music halls. Many of his film appearances were so fleeting that his characters often had no names, only descriptions, e.g. "Valet with violin" in '' The Prince and the Showgirl'' (1957) and "Woodcutter" in '' The Fearless Vampire Killers'' (1967). During his stage career, Andreas Malandrinos billed himself simply as Malandrinos; conversely, his movie billing was often simply "Andreas." Selected filmography * '' Raise the Roof'' (1909, film debut) * '' The Lodger'' (1930) * ''Don Quixote'' (1932) * '' On Secret Service'' (1933) * '' Send 'em Back Half Dead'' (1933) * '' Say It with Flowers'' (1934) * '' My Song for You'' (1934) * ''The Admiral's Secret'' (1934) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamonn Keane (actor)
Eamonn Patrick Keane (born Edmund Keane; 30 March 1925 – 7 January 1990) was an Irish actor. Keane was born in Listowel, County Kerry and was a brother of the playwright, John B. Keane. He was a member of the Radio Éireann Players and appeared in many of the station's drama productions on both radio and television.''The Irish Times'', "Death of Eamon Keane, aged 64", 8 January 1990 In 1966, he won a Jacob's Award for his performance in RTÉ Television's production, ''When do you die – Friend?'' He won a second Jacob's Award in 1972, this time for his contribution to radio drama. He was part of yet another Jacob's Award-winning production in 1982, as a member of the RTÉ Players, when he played Simon Dedalus in RTÉ Radio's unabridged, 30-hour, marathon broadcast of James Joyce's novel, ''Ulysses''. He played the part of Dan Paddy Andy in the 1990, film adaptation of his brother's play '' The Field''. He had appeared in the play's world première at Dublin's Olympia The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derry Power
Derry Power (born 1935) is an Irish actor born in Dublin. He appeared in the first production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow at Dublin's Pike Theatre in 1954. He is best known for playing management genius Seamus Finnegan in the BBC Television sitcom ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'', with the classic line "Would you be having a joke there with a simple, tongue-tied Irishman from the land of the bogs and the little people?". In a long stage career he has featured in many plays in the Abbey Theatre; he has appeared in TV series from ''Z-Cars'' to ''Ballykissangel'' and in many films made in Ireland. During early 2016 he starred with Des Keogh in The Quiet Land by Bairbre Ni Chaoimh at Bewley's Theatre Café, Dublin. Derry also appeared in Super Gran as the fabulous o Finnegan (1985) Selected filmography * '' Never Put It in Writing'' (1964) * '' Underground'' (1970) * ''Warlords of Atlantis'' (1978) * ''Educating Rita'' (1983) * '' Rawhead Rex'' (1986) * ''My Left F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicole Croisille
Nicole Croisille (9 October 1936 – 4 June 2025) was a French singer and actress. She appeared in 24 films between 1961 and 2005, and recorded several albums since 1961. Perhaps her most heard work is on the soundtrack of 1966 film, '' A Man and a Woman'' (''Un Homme et Une Femme''). She sang one solo, "Today It's You," and dueted with Pierre Barouh on several other numbers. Croisille attempted to represent France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 with the songs "Tu m'avais dit" and "Je t'aime un point c'est tout", but Dani was selected instead, although she did not participate due to Georges Pompidou's death being on the week in the contest. Her best-known records are "I'll Never Leave You"; "Téléphone-Moi"; "Une Femme avec Toi"; "J'ai besoin de Toi, J'ai besoin de Lui"; and "Parlez-moi de Lui". Her single, "Woman in Your Arms", peaked at number 71 in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |